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Sacred Growth

New documentary by Marie-Monique Robin, featuring Tim Jackson

"More growth!" is the political mantra in times of economic, environmental and financial crises - the always-more-ideology is supposed to guarantee a return to a healthy economy. Recently though, more and more economic and ecological experts have began advocating against this concept of limitless growth: it's simply unsustainable and in the affluent West not contributing anymore to well-being.

In her latest investigation, French journalist and accomplished film-maker Marie-Monique Robin questions the dogma of growth and investigates social and economic alternatives: community-based and environmentally conscious models are on the rise and seem to prepare much better for emerging problems such as climate change, resource scarcities and financial crises.

Marie-Monique Robin is a French TV journalist and documentary filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert Londres Prize for Voleurs d'yeux (1994), an expose about organ theft; best political documentary award from the French Senate for a 2003 film about the transfer of French counter-insurgency techniques to Argentina; and the Rachel Carson Prize for her work on Monsanto.